Any chance of an offline mode being added during an Update. Although SOT is great fun to play, sometimes it would be nice to be able to explore the world and take on in game quests and enemies at our own pace.
Offline Mode
Sea of thieves would be pretty boring without the pirates.
Not only that, all you could do is sail solo, alone and on the tiny sloop.Perhaps they could make AI pirates but to be clear, this would need to be offline only with no progression to prevent people making farming servers.
However, so much work to do something that is kinds against the vision of the game...i dont think it would ever happen.
They’d have to put staff to work on this, taking them off other things like bug fixing. All just to please a very small part of the community.
I dont see it ever happening unfortunately. Would you rather not just play online and sail in unpredictable seas?
There is zero chance of there ever being an offline mode. The game is designed as a client-server architecture, and has many different systems that it interacts with that cannot be run offline.
For example, your progression (purchased clothing, reputation, gold, etc...) is all stored and managed by a separate server from the one you are playing on. This is why sometimes you'll hand stuff in and not get gold; the account server is overloaded and not sending the notifications to your client. In order to have an offline mode, this would need to be moved to run on your local system (and then if your save file got wiped, you'd lose all progress). Not an easy task to move this to run locally.
All of the ship physics and enemy AI are run on the server. It's unlikely that they would be able to offload this information onto an XBox or a min. spec. PC without cutting a lot of content and/or rewriting the entire game.
@heavyweaponsrm said in Offline Mode:
Any chance of an offline mode being added during an Update. Although SOT is great fun to play, sometimes it would be nice to be able to explore the world and take on in game quests and enemies at our own pace.
no it's a shared world so it's never going to happen
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